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Kropotkin in America PAULAVRICH KROPOTKIN IN AMERICA It is a well-established fact that foreign immigrants and visitors played a major role in the emergence of American anarchism. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, European-born artisans and peasants — Germans and Czechs, Italians and Spaniards, Russians and Jews — constituted the mass base of the movement, while its intellectual leadership included well-known speakers and writers from diverse countries, who came either as permanent settlers or on extended lecture tours. Among the Russians, Michael Bakunin spent nearly two months in the United States after his flight from Siberia in 1861.1 Stepniak (S. M. Kravchinsky) went there to lecture in 1891, N. V. Chaikovsky to join a Utopian community and again to raise funds for the Russian revolutionary movement. The flood of Russian immigrants before and during the First World War included V. M. Eikhenbaum ("Volin"), Efim Yarchuk, Aaron and Fanny Baron, Boris Yelensky and William Shatoff, not to mention Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, who had arrived in the 188O's. After the Bolshevik consolidation of power came such figures as Gregory Maximoff, Abba Gordin and Mark Mratchny, who recently died in New York, the last of the Russian anarchists with an international reputation. (Maximoff died in Chicago in 1950 and Alexander Schapiro in New York in 1946, a refugee from Hitler's invasion of France.) Of all the Russian visitors, however, it was Peter Kropotkin who made the greatest impression. The leading figure in the international anarchist movement since Bakunin's death in 1876, Kropotkin was a founder of both the British and Russian anarchist movements, and exerted a strong in- fluence on anarchists throughout the world. What is comparatively little known is his influence on the movement in America, especially as a result of his visits in 1897 and 1901. To describe these visits and their impact is the purpose of the present article. 1 See Paul Avrich, "Bakunin and the United States", in: International Review of Social History, XXIV (1979), pp. 320-40. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 24 Sep 2021 at 13:42:36, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000006192 2 PAUL AVRICH I: 1897 Kropotkin, as David Hecht has noted, had an "active and abiding interest in the United States" which, strengthened by his knowledge of English, extended over a forty-year period.2 Like Bakunin before him, he was an admirer of American federalism, extolling the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence as landmarks in the struggle for human freedom.3 He was well versed in American literature, praising the poetry of Longfellow and the prose of Bret Harte, as well as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin for its role in the emancipation of the slaves.4 Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman were among the writers he held in high esteem; and in calling for the expropriation of land he was indebted to Henry George's Progress and Poverty, which provoked an "outburst of socialist feeling in England".5 Abreast of American scholarship in both the natural and social sciences, Kropotkin invoked the anthropologist Lewis H. Mor- gan and the sociologist Franklin H. Giddings in support of his theory of "mutual aid".6 And in The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops he paid tribute to American economic progress, citing advances in agriculture and especially industry, "aided as it is by a wonderful development of technical skill, by excellent schools, a scientific education which goes hand in hand with technical education, and a spirit of enter- prise which is unrivalled in Europe".7 Yet Kropotkin was not blind to the defects of American society. On the contrary, he was sharply critical of the capitalist system and of government abuses of power. He condemned the persistence of child labor and the "travesty" of American democracy, which he claimed was in fact a "plu- tocracy". He hailed the railroad strike of 1877 as a sign of rising revo- lutionary consciousness among the workers. "Its spontaneity", he wrote, "its simultaneousness at so many distant points, the aid given by the workers of different trades, the resolute character of the uprising from the beginning, call forth our sympathies, excite our admiration, and awaken 2 David Hecht, "Kropotkin and America", in: Bulletin of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, September 15, 1952, pp. 5-7. 3 See P. Kropotkin, The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 (London, 1909), pp. 21-22, 141-42. * id., Russian Literature (New York, 1905), pp. 4, 223-24. 5 Id., Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Boston, 1899), p. 440. 6 Id., Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, ed. by Paul Avrich (London, 1972), pp. 25, 70, 89. 7 Id., The Conquest of Bread, ed. by Paul Avrich (London, 1972), p. 120; id., Fields, Factories and Workshops (London, 1899), pp. 62, 147-57. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 24 Sep 2021 at 13:42:36, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000006192 KROPOTKIN IN AMERICA 3 our hopes."8 Nearly twenty years later, when Eugene Victor Debs was jailed during the Pullman strike, Kropotkin sent him an inscribed volume of his writings in token of solidarity and support.9 Kropotkin, moreover, took an active part in protests against the trial of the Haymarket anarchists in 1886 and 1887. Describing the Chicago affair as "a retaliation upon prisoners taken in the virtual civil war that was going on between the two classes", he drafted a letter to the American press objecting to the death sentences imposed on the defendants and addressed a mass rally in London, together with Stepniak, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw, against their impending execution. A year after the hangings he declared that "the commemoration of the Chicago martyrs has almost acquired the same importance as the commemoration of the Paris Commune." The integrity and courage of the hanged men, he said a decade later, "remain a lesson for the old, an inspiration for the young."10 Deeply moved by the Haymarket tragedy, Kropotkin followed the development of American anarchism with special interest. Long before his visits, he corresponded with American anarchists, read their books and journals, and sent them messages of support. He was familiar with the writings of both the individualist and collectivist schools, mentioning Josiah Warren, Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker, together with Albert Parsons, August Spies and Johann Most, in his well-known Ency- clopaedia Britannica article on "Anarchism". For his own part, Kropotkin exerted an increasing influence on American anarchists, not to speak of socialists, Single Taxers and other reformers. During the 188O's and 1890's, his articles appeared in all the leading anarchist journals, including Tuck- er's Liberty, Parsons's Alarm and Most's Freiheit. Tucker, in spite of their philosophical differences, counted Kropotkin "among the most prominent anarchists in Europe" and praised his paper, Le Revoke, as "the most scholarly anarchist journal in existence".11 Apart from translating Kro- potkin's "Order and Anarchy" and "Law and Authority" for Liberty, Tucker published news of Kropotkin's activities in Europe, including his expulsion from Switzerland in 1881 and his trial at Lyons in 1883 (la- menting "the cruel fate of Kropotkine and his comrades", sentenced to 8 Quoted in Lillian Symes and Travers Clement, Rebel America: The Story of Social Revolt in the United States (New York, 1934), p. 152. Cf. Kropotkin's reference to the 1877 strike in "L'Expropriation", in: Le Revolte (Geneva), December 23, 1882. 9 Harry Kelly, "Reminiscences and Reflections on Peter Kropotkin", in: Centennial Expressions on Peter Kropotkin, 1842-1942 (Los Angeles, 1942), p. 27. 10 The Commonweal (London), October 22, 1887; Freedom (London), December 1898; Henry David, The History of the Haymarket Affair (New York, 1936), p. 534. 11 Quoted in James J. Martin, Men Against the State, revised ed. (Colorado Springs, 1970), pp. 219-20. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 24 Sep 2021 at 13:42:36, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000006192 4 PAUL AVRICH long terms in prison). Tucker also published Sophie Kropotkin's story "The Wife of Number 4,237", based on her own experience with her husband at Clairvaux prison.12 Of all Kropotkin's early writings, however, it was A n Appeal to the Young that had the greatest impact, making numerous converts in America as in other parts of the world.13 "Thousands and hundreds of thousands had read that pamphlet", remarked Anna Strunsky Walling, "and had responded to it as to nothing else in the literature of revolutionary Social- ism."14 For Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Kropotkin's Appeal to the Young "struck home to me personally, as if he were speaking to us there in our shabby poverty-stricken Bronx flat: 'Must you drag on the same weary existence as your father and mother for thirty or forty years? Must you toil your life long to procure for others all the pleasures of well-being, of knowledge, of art, and keep for yourself only the eternal anxiety as to whether you can get a bit of bread?'"15 By the 1890's the anarchist movement in America had become pre- dominantly Anarchist-Communist in orientation, owing to Kropotkin's influence. "He was a prominent figure in the realm of learning", wrote Emma Goldman in her memoirs, "recognized as such by the foremost men of the world.
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